There are four separate handicapped competitions to find the leading player on Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday evening  and Friday evening Duplicate Pairs events.

• All the competitions have the same rules and take place from January to December inclusive.

• Merit Points are awarded to members on each session as follows:

• All open duplicate sessions are included, but special events such Ladies' Pairs, Men's Pairs, Christmas Parties, etc are excluded.
• At the end of the year the total points obtained by each player will be calculated and the player with the highest total will be the winner of each event.
• Any player who is placed in the top two or three positions will be handicapped for that event in the following two years as follows:

• Prior to 2011

• 2011 Onwards

• The competition takes place on the 4th Wednesday of each month from January to November inclusive, and consists of duplicate pairs.

• It is open to all members who will receive an individual handicap based on their performance at the club during the previous 12 months.
  

• Individual handicaps will be calculated as follows:

• New members will automatically have a handicap of - 5.00 until they have played in five club events that qualify for the calculation of an individual handicap.

• For each event the pair will receive a handicap that is the average of their individual handicaps.

• The handicap of the pair will be added to the percentage obtained in the event to produce the handicapped result , e.g.
  

• Merit Points will then be awarded as follows: 1st place - 8 points, 2nd place - 6 points, 3rd place - 5 points, and then 4, 3, 2 and 1 point.

• All eleven events of the competition will be included and the individual with the highest total Merit Point count will be the winner.  In the event of a tie, the player with the most first place positions will be deemed to have won.  If there is still a tie, then the one with the most second place positions will be deemed to be the winner, and so on.  If all the positions are identical then the competition will be deemed to have been tied.

• Visitors are welcome to play in the occasional event but, as they will have no handicap, neither they nor any member they might pair with can score points in that event.

• EBU Master Points will be awarded on the basis of the actual result and not the handicapped result.

The Ted Reveley is a pairs competition open to all members.
 

• The competition takes place on the 2nd Monday of each month from January to December inclusive, and consists of duplicate pairs.

• The best eight events count towards the competition and the partnership with the highest aggregate percentage will be the winner.

• Visitors are welcome to play in the occasional event but they cannot take part in the overall competition.

From 2011 it is not a handicapped competition, but it has been in previous years.

From 2014 the winner is not eligible to win this competition again for a period of five years.

The Player of the Year is the player with the highest aggregate merit point total in the four Merit Point competitions (Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday evening and Friday evening).

• The merit point total includes any handicaps that are applicable in the individual competitions.

• The winner is not eligible to win this competition again for a period of five years.